Beaded leather belt with silver buckle. On a long, thin piece of pliable brown leather are sewn small, blue glass beads with three similar areas of patterning located across the centre of the belt. Pattern is a pair of triangles in green, silver and red with points facing each other, backed by green and silver vertical lines. A round silver buckle is attached at one end, with three holes bored through the leather at the other. Back is undecorated.

• Narrative

  Sandra Dent's grandfather (Gervase Edward Gale) was a missionary and principal of St. Paul's School at Cardston, Alberta, on the Blood Reserve, c. 1904-1910. Her grandmother, Hattie May is said to have collected the Blood (Kainai) objects in MOA accessions 3194 and 3239.

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• Type of Item belt
• Culture Kainai
• Material skin, glass, cotton fibre
• Measurements height 3.5 cm, width 67.0 cm (overall)

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• Previous Owner Hattie May Gale, Sandra Dent
• Received from Sandra Dent

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• Made in Alberta
• Collected in Cardston

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• Creation Date during 1910
• Collection Date between 1904 and 1910
• Ownership Date before 1968, before May 2, 2017
• Acquisition Date on May 2, 2017

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• Item Classes beadwork
• Condition good
• Accession Number 3239/0003